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Cowboys’ Cole Beasley makes an early bid for NFL’s catch of the year with a behind-the-neck grab

The season premiere of Sunday Night Football on NBC was mostly trash, with the Dallas Cowboys dominating a lackluster New York Giants squad that looked as if it were running in wet cement on offense. But for about four seconds in the fourth quarter of Dallas’s 19-3 victory, the NFC East division matchup became worthwhile.

Oh, man, it was great, Bryant said. I didn’t see it on the field. I was trying to see if they were going to show it on the screen so I had to go straight to Twitter and go look at it right after the game. I said, ‘Ohh shhh.’ So far, that’s the top catch of the year.

Beasley, who caught 75 passes for 833 yards and five touchdowns last season, had only three catches for 32 yards Sunday night.

If I just would’ve turned earlier, it would’ve been an easy catch, Beasley said. I turned my eyes a little too late and the ball kind of got on me pretty quick and tipped the ball up and locked in.

The Patriots came out on top (or the bottom) with a margin of two percentage points this year, 21 to 19. New England held an advantage of three percentage points in 2016, when PPP announced that the Cowboys had been out-hated for the first time since they began conducting the survey.

Patriots Coach Bill Belichick was seen as more favorable than not (40 percent vs. 34 percent), but the same cannot be said of the team’s nemesis, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, whose job performance was viewed unfavorably by 37 percent of respondents, as opposed to favorably by 22 percent. Joe Flacco’s disappointing season resulted in more people saying he was not an elite quarterback than last year (41 percent vs. 35 precent).

More respondents this year thought the Redskins should not change their name, 69 percent vs. 64 percent last year, while the percentage saying the team should change its name dropped from 25 to 20. Meanwhile, the percentage who thought of the Cowboys as America’s Team crept up, from 27 to 30.

NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Monday that Big Blue is expected to hire Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur as the team’s new coach, per a source informed of the decision.

The Giants will mark the second stint for Shurmur as a head coach. He spent two seasons with the Cleveland Browns in 2011-2012, compiling a 9-23 record.

Since then, he’s worked under Chip Kelly in Philadelphia (2013-2015) and Mike Zimmer in Minnesota (2016-2017). Shurmur displayed adaptability in each circumstance, adding elements from Kelly’s offense when he took over in Minnesota. The Vikings deployed one of the most balanced offensive operations in the NFL this season.

Shurmur’s ability to coax production out of Keenum — left for dead under Jeff Fisher last season — and his work with unheralded players such as receiver Adam Thielen should be a boon for a Giants offensive attack that was one of the worst in the NFL under Ben McAdoo and sans Odell Beckham Jr. in 2017. The latter is already geeked over the hire.

Yates left the game with 20 seconds remaining in the second quarter after sustaining a hit. He immediately went to the sideline medical tent before walking to the locker room during halftime. He returned to the sideline at the start of the second half with the Texans trailing, 20-0.

The referee thought that I got hit in the head and pulled me out of the game, Yates said. I went off the field, passed the protocol in the tent, and it was at halftime so I went into the training room and passed all the tests and came back out in the second half.

In a somewhat strange turn of events, Heinicke then suffered a concussion on the first possession of the second half. He was examined in the medical tent before leaving for the locker room. Yates was given the green light to return minutes before Heinicke was hit.

Tom Brady will play in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game after slicing his throwing hand earlier in the week.

Speaking on NFL Network ahead of the game versus the Jacksonville Jaguars, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sounded confident Brady will be Brady.

Well whatever I can do, you know. In life, you know, the hardest thing is to surround yourself with quality people, even in a marriage if it’s your partner, and then having continuity, Kraft said when asked about keeping continuity. Life is difficult, especially if you’re doing things at a high level. Having continuity, keeping things going … You know that fact that Tommy and Bill Belichick and my family have been together for 18 years.

There’s a lot of strong-minded people, but when you have something good going, everybody’s got to get their egos checked in and try to hold it together.

Immediately (and understandably), thousands of index fingers extended in the direction of offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian. On Thursday, Falcons head coach Dan Quinn deflected blame from Sarkisian while also confirming the coordinator will return for a second season in 2018.

Placing blame on one person would be wrong in this instance, Quinn said, per the team. If this was about one person, that decision would’ve already been made.

Sarkisian returns to an offense that fell 14 places in points scored per game from 2016’s historic season to 2017, the first under the coordinator. That offense also inlcudes two talented running backs in Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman, and superstar receiver Julio Jones. Oh, and we can’t forget quarterback Matt Ryan. It’s a good situation in which to work, but should be expected to be better than it was in 2017. If that doesn’t happen, we’ll be back here discussing this topic again a year from now.

Editor’s note: Click through the tabs above to see each day’s wrap up from the week at the East-West Shrine Game.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — After a week of practices here at the East-West Shrine Game, the festivities wrapped on Saturday, with the West team topping the East, 14-10, in the annual college all-star game. I had the opportunity to call the game for NFL Network, and several prospects grabbed my attention with their play.

Games like this are more about the individual performances than the outcome of the game for the scouts evaluating this year’s NFL draft prospects. It’s a great opportunity for some small-school stars that might not get a lot of attention and unheralded players from larger programs to make a statement on a big stage.

Lindsay, Colorado’s all-time leader in all-purpose yards (5,926), is the ideal change-of-pace back and can return kicks. When you’re at games like this, you want to see who looks fast on the field, and Lindsay jumped out as one of the fastest players that competed on Saturday. He led all rushers Saturday with 51 yards on 12 carries.

I’m very excited, Vick told USA Today Sports. Over the last seven or eight months, I’ve done a lot of interviews, and I think I’ve gotten better as I’ve been put in those situations more often. Things really came together [with Fox] over the last couple months. They have shows that I have always watched and admired. My friends and family are thankful and proud of me.

Vick reportedly will appear on Fox NFL Kickoff, the network’s Sunday pregame show, and will make regular appearances on Fox Sports 1.

Vick returned to football in 2009, putting in five seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles before taking backup roles with the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers.

More recently, Vick spent the summer working with the Kansas City Chiefs as a coaching intern.

Trump rips the NFL for disrespecting the flag. Then he jokes about a military flag ceremony.

After he had repeatedly railed against professional athletes over perceived slights to the American flag and military, President Trump joked on Wednesday about a bugle call that is part of the armed forces’ time-honored tradition of showing respect for the Stars and Stripes.

The bugle call occurred during Trump’s interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, conducted in an airplane hangar used by the Pennsylvania Air National Guard in Harrisburg and before the president’s address on tax revision.

Being in the hangar, they didn’t have to do anything special, Schwartz said.

In 2007, comedian Robin Williams was performing for service members at an American base in Kuwait when his show was interrupted by Retreat. The entire audience stood to salute, while Williams removed his hat and stood quietly. I’m not going to forget that, Williams said after the ceremony was over.

Footage of Williams’s solemn reaction was captured by a soldier and later featured on Late Night with David Letterman. It’s since been viewed millions of times on YouTube.

Jaguars: Will clinch a playoff berth with a win over the Seahawks combined with losses/ties by the Bills, Dolphins, Jets and Chargers, plus the Chiefs-Raiders game not ending in a tie.

Bengals: There are three somewhat-complicated ways in which Cincinnati can be eliminated, and all three begin with the Bengals losing to the Bears and the Ravens beating the Steelers. Click here for further details.

Texans: There are nine combinations that will result in Houston being eliminated from the playoffs. Seven of them begin with the Texans losing to the 49ers, and the other two involve a tie. NFL Playoff Scenarios breaks down what else needs to happen here.

Colts: Indianapolis will be eliminated with a loss/tie against the Bills, or a Ravens win/tie, or a Dolphins win, or a Bengals win, or a Dolphins tie/Chargers win/Raiders-Chiefs tie.

There have been plenty of memorable, on-the-ground catches in the NFL.

Antonio Freeman’s Monday Night Football catch against the Vikings that prompted Al Michaels to exclaim he did what!? comes to mind, as does Jermaine Kearse’s leg bobble in Super Bowl XLIX. Even Gary Barnidge’s thigh catch in 2015 could qualify.

Imagine that: Diving to make a play, seeing a live ball deflect up in the air, ripe for intercepting but seemingly out of reach, landing on your leg and staying off the ground and then pinning the still-live ball against your rear end in a game that ended in a win for your team. The only fortune better than that comes in the Mega Millions.

Everybody else was trying to grab it. So I just had to keep it in my possession, Lattimore said.

Davis isn’t opening the purse strings wide just for Gruden. Rapoport reported the coordinators are getting four-year deals. The deals would keep the staff under contract amid the team’s move from Oakland to Las Vegas.

The Raiders are expected to announce Gruden as the new head coach on Tuesday.

Allen took off from there, had a record-setting season and helped propel the Chargers into playoff contention until the final game. He was rewarded with Sporting News’s 2017 NFL Comeback Player of the Year, in a landslide vote by his fellow players.